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Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music
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ptoye |
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Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music |
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Thu, 16 Feb 2017 08:07:21 -0700 (MST) |
What - no-one? Am I the only one playing minimalist music round here?
ptoye wrote
> I'm trying to engrave a highly repetitive piano part using repeats as much
> as possible to save page-turns, but I need to display the bar numbers as
> if the repeats were written out (other parts don't repeat). It seems to me
> that this raises three issues, to none of which have I found a solution in
> the manuals.
>
> 1) Notating the number of repeats automatically . One can do a markup of
> "3×" on the repeat bar, so it's not a major problem, but Lilypond doesn't
> seem to do this automatically, which is a bit of a shame.
>
> 2) Adjusting the bar count to take the repeated bars into account. For
> example, if an 8-bar phrase is repeated 4 times, the bar count after the
> end of the section is 33, rather than 9. Again, this can be done by
> setting the bar number, but it would be useful to have a computer do the
> arithmetic.
>
> 3) Displaying the multiple bar numbers. In the above example, displaying
> something like "1-9-17-25". Without this, rehearsals will be a bit
> fraught!
>
> Any help gratefully received,
>
> Peter
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- Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Peter Toye, 2017/02/07
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music,
ptoye <=
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Jeffery Shivers, 2017/02/16
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Jeffery Shivers, 2017/02/16
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, ptoye, 2017/02/16
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Jeffery Shivers, 2017/02/16
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Peter Toye, 2017/02/17
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Jeffery Shivers, 2017/02/17
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Jeffery Shivers, 2017/02/17
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, David Nalesnik, 2017/02/17
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, Peter Toye, 2017/02/17
- Re: Bar counts and repeats in repetitive music, David Nalesnik, 2017/02/17